Show I Second Institute I A t Big Success rs I Interesting and Instructing ism Lectures b by bythe K I the Ag Agricultural l People I 0 r The farmers farmers' ers ers' institute at I Roosevelt Thursday u and I Friday of last week under the management of the Ext Extension department of the time State Stat Agricultural ral colle college t wad a Ii c complete ete success c ess from tt every cry cry standpoint H t. t TIle The talks tulls by the several see speakers were highly interesting and amid instructing Farmers attended nth from froth every o lit of the Reservation The speakers es were enthused by the large larte attendance n all and the manifest interest tatted taken b by the people in iu the Hw efforts or the thc college in its in instruction to the settlers the 11 A Agricultural people w tt were Cret Je L Luther Mi r Winsor B B. S. S instructor in in In irrigation James Christian I Mw S. S A. A a t I Robert Ste c r Ill Ph h. h D. D professor of f ch chemistry J Leon eon D. D Batchelor M. M S S. S Sa professor ot of horticulture BI Blanche l C O I 15 fl S. S associate alc professor f l domestic omes c science V SV W Eru M. M I. I S. S assistant t p professor of bf Hl animal imal husbandry opened Thursday night ht Sessions s were held bald h ld both Friday morning n hn and afternoon A synopsis of the thc several lectures Ice lec tures tufe wi wil l occur weekly hi iii The l I ecord orl OU Orf horticulture Professor n Bachelor instructed ded the st settlers Us fol follows s 's There fl i is not nett eilO enough h fruit 1 raised in iti the state for home con con- consumption con I nf t o l there is is ll riot not ellou enough h even n tn for Coil community J use and amid there is l little reason reson why win wore more should t-hould not be produced believe t c e this to to be hc a splendid apple country In fact falt from what I L have seen in rn th tin I 1 settled d portions of the Hie basin it itcan I ran CUll heso b be so so stated as ns an lJJ absolute fn fact t And It is apples aiple that is i's going to tc be your great CO com coui commercial l' l mercial fri fruit iJ crop CI Very oft often we e e are able to toc learn c n more more- from takes mistakes akes than 8 a ld the first thing to tobe tobe tole be le cC coi in apple raising raising- is to to select tI that t kind of liln land which is S well weli drained An Ari orchard tree simply cannot live j where Ht water is near the sur stir fore face It l may wy be h be possible to raise a six or seven seVel year-old year orchard under this thi's th IS cond condition ant and pO possibly one 01 ol two cr crops crops' ps' ps hut hilt an orchard is a long life-long proposition nI o i tion and ancI th the greatest st of care should therefore be he exercised exercised exer exer- in the selection of its location loca loca- tion For ai r- r pick t put Out l t thigh high land other things being equal Jt Jrr In the sef selection ci n of nursery nursery ry stock buy one year old trees trees- trees l G by no iio o means ii lis vo t Vo t and three e er ear ir ri In Ili the J first lace y r l once f place the otie-j otie e old mild tree co costs ts less you Vou cau start start the shape of the tree it it grows rows by fa far a b butter root system and and there i is much luch more success su cess in making the tite theone theone one year old tree trec l live Other Other things bei being 1st equal patronize and build mild up up Utah I nurseries There are about three hundred nurseries in the Utah bus hUB twelve The rho best trees or thirteen i teen planted l in ill Grand l Junction the most progressive r apple section in ill i the thc country conic come frotH from Utah To bu buat at home makes malts a shorter s i nt 1111 and ancI a few W days saved cd in ill transit lo counts Following is a list to plant t for variety throughout bout the season season sea sen- son One of the first apples ripples of the tire haul hard hardy varieties ies is the Yellow Transparent iii three ree or four Weeks s later latel the theD will comp come on and for the following fallowing two months the McIntosh Red apple the Rome home for a win winter Beauty is unexcelled for this section it is the latest oom b to bloom bloomin i in ill l the spring and blossoms aft after r the he pS possibility of fr frost t the thc mainstay main of the apple industry of Utah is the Jonathan and it itis itis itis is a a. a splendid l. l keeper th the Mammoth Mam Nam- moth ig is a good cooker cook cooker cook cook- er ail glut and a good ke keeper per as is also I the thel l I Rhode hode Island Green Greening ing In planting th orchard place the trees f from 28 to 30 feet teet apart alart each ach way ay possibly 35 feet in orchard cut a cut the r roots ois bo so t that 1 t the wound will heal quickly Cut the tree thirty inches from froin the ground i and amid the Ue tree will rill branch out cJ the rolt g-rolt iu Prune tr trees es the first March after a ing and keep the pruning up 1 regularly Do not e leave Ilat e it and try to do it all at t otie ohe time tune I 1 Thousands of dollars damages tire are dune to orchards each year yearby yearby yearby by rabbits ed to building paper wrapped three or four times around n the tree is a certain certain certain tain protection on t then en there tire Hie manufactured red protectors protectors- that c cost st only 75 cents per I r h hundred To 10 pr prevent ye the moth spray early arly with kith arsenic of lead led Handle I fruit carefully The TheU U U. S S. exp experiment ril department that s. s bat it is 25 per percent cent b better te through careful hani- hani han i- i ling liui A great greab industry in iii this country should b be the raising of small fruits 1 The Coin Commercial Commer cial cUrr currant nt also the Fay Fa and anddew anddew dew cle b berry rry will ciO r well Plant on oil light gravelly I soil your soil poorest soil and the I your po results wilLbe The best raspberry is the Cuthbert the popular ra raspberry rasp rasi- p- p berry fr from m coast coust to c Good of strawberries for this section are the dyke Sample ClydeE 1 early t for home use and the do not plant one variety alone ort the Reservation Reservation Reser Reser- l will no doubt find the instructions from the coe college e professors of great reat help to theta thern and Tire The Record su suggests gc ts t that those who were unable to hear tiem them at Roosevelt Roose clip from flOm this p paper per the suggestions Made to the settlers and paste them in in a n book for future reference 1 I VI |